Is the subject missing a word? "an *extension* to time..." ?
Thanks, -m On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 4:37 PM, Iustin Pop <ius...@debian.org> wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Iustin Pop <ius...@debian.org> > > * Package name : multitime > Version : 1.3 > Upstream Author : Laurence Tratt <lau...@tratt.net> > * URL : http://tratt.net/laurie/src/multitime/ > * License : BSD > Programming Lang: C > Description : a time-like tool which does multiple runs > > Unix's time utility is a simple and often effective way of measuring > how long a command takes to run ("wall time"). Unfortunately, running > a command once can give misleading timings: the process may create a > cache on its first execution, running faster subsequently; other > processes may cause the command to be starved of CPU or IO time; > etc. It is common to see people run time several times and take > whichever values they feel most comfortable with. Inevitably, this > causes problems. > > multitime is, in essence, a simple extension to time which runs a > command multiple times and prints the timing means, standard > deviations, mins, medians, and maxes having done so. This can give a > much better understanding of the command's performance. >